Does heat increase the solubility in substances? support your answer with an example


On heating a solvent, the average kinetic energies of its molecules increases. As the solvent is able to dislodge more particles from the surface of the solute. Therefore, increasing the temperature increases the solubilities of substances.

Supersaturation is a solution that contains more of the dissolved material than that could be dissolved by the solvent under normal circumstances. As solubility is dependent on temperature, if an already saturated solution is heated, we can dissolve more solutes in it. Hence, a supersaturated solution produces more dissolved content than it should.
Example: 211 grams of water can be dissolved in 100 milliliters of Sucrose (sugar), but on heating the solution we can dissolve more sucrose in water. Thus making it a supersaturated solution.

Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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